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2 78 GLOSSARY

MAZZARD, skull, head (lit. a drink- 'Both more and less have given
ing cup or bowl); 5. 1. 87 him the revolt'); 5. 2. 355
MEANS, manner; 4. 5. 212 MOREOVER THAT, besides that;
MEED, wages, hire; 'in his meed' 2. 2. 2
«= in his pay (v. note); 5. 2. 146 MORTISED, closely and firmly fixed
MERE, pure, sheer; 5. I. 278 (as with mortise and tenon);
MERELY, completely; 1. 2. 137 3- 3- 2 0
MESS, table; 5. 2. 89 MOTION (sb.), (i) impulse, desire;
METAL, a magnet (with a quibble 3. 4. 72; (ii) a fencing term
on 'mettle'); 3. 2. 107 signifying a practised and regu-
MICHING, sneaking (for mis- lated movement of the bodyj
chievous or improper purposes); 4. 7. 100, 156
MOULD (sb.), model; 3. 1. 156
MILCH, lit. giving milk, (hence) MOUNT (ON), conspicuously, in
moist; 2. 2. 521 view of all; 4. 7. 28
MINERAL (sb.), mine; 4. 1. 26 MOUNTEBANK, itinerant quack;
.Mo, more in quantity. Rare (but 4. 7. 140
cf. Temp. 5. 1. 235 'mo MOUSE, pet name for a woman or
diversity'). Generally = more girl (cf. L.L.L. 5.2.19, Tw.Nt.
in number; 3. 1. 150 1.5. 61); 3.4. 183
MOBLED, muffled ('survives in MOUTH (vb.), utter in a pompously
Warwickshire,' Onions); 2. 2. oratorical style, declaim; 3. 2. 3;
506 5. 1. 277
MODEL, counterpart in miniature MOUTHS, 'make mouths at* = gri-
(cf. Rick. II, 3. 2. 153)55. 2. 50 mace in derision, scorn; 4. 4. 5 0
MODESTY, (i) sense of shame (cf. Mow (sb.), grimace; 2. 2. 367
Lyly, Mother Bombie, 3. 1 MUDDIED, confused, agitated; 4. 5.
'I can neither without danger 80
smother the fire, nor without MUDDY-METTLED, thick-witted,
modestie disclose my furie'); dull; 2. 2. 570
2. 2. 283; (ii) moderation, re- MURDERING PIECE, a small cannon
straint; 2. 2. 445; 3. 2. 19; loaded with shrapnel, so as to
5. 1. 202 inflict a number of wounds;
MOIETY, portion; 1. 1. 90 4. 5. 94
MOLE, blemish; 1. 4. 24 MUSTY, stale; 3. 2. 346
MONUMENT, prodigy (v. note); J. MUTE (sb.), an actor who has no
1. 291 speaking part; 5. 2. 333
2
MOPE, be bewildered, 'move and MUTINE (sb.), mutineer; 5- - 6
act without the impulse and MUTINE (vb.), mutiny, revolt;
guidance of thought' (Schmidt); 3- 4- 3
8
3.4.81
MORE ABOVE, moreover; 2. 2. 126 NAKED, destitute, devoid of re-
MORE AND LESS, great and small sources; 4. 7. 44
(cf. 2 Hen. IF, 1. I. 209 NAPKIN, handkerchief (cf. Oth.
'And more and less do flock to 3. 3. 290 'I am glad I have
follow him' and Macb. 5. 4. 12 found this napkin'); 5. 2. 286